Notwithstanding, Paperback/Louis Bernieres

Based on de Bernieres' recollections of the village he grew up in, this is a charming depiction of the village of Notwithstanding, whose inhabitants include a lady who wears plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general who has given up wearing clothes, a spiritualist who lives with her dead husband, and where nobody thinks it unusual to confide in spiders.